“He didn’t make it,” Dougherty told Fox 13. “After the second explosion, they had to use DNA to find out who was who.”

He kept Scott's military items in the locked trailer in black duffel bags.

“It was like a time capsule if you want to call it that,” Dougherty told FoxNews.com.

He filed a report with the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office. Unfortunately, he never registered it with a vehicle identification number so the trailer can’t be entered into the state and national theft database.

“They can have the trailer and everything else, just let me have the military stuff,” he told Fox 13. “That’s all I ask.”